Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1887-06-17
a Blood thirsty Chief tain.
FROM the Pioneer Prsss.

BE NlQM lie flOneefe tIesS.
"A mixed crowd 81 old and and young.
male and female, Off Ger and civilian,
IS were crowded IN Marshal Camp s
office il the custom house yesterday
afternoon, gazing with silent awe 81,
the much bedecked person Of one Of the
best known and most desperate braves
of the Chippewa notion. Hc was
brought down from Cass county-whe'e
. he has been liz hiding from the govern.
ment officers tor past six mon,hs--by
Marshal Campbell himself, and the
arrest was made on charge Of convey
Ing and diebursing twenty gallons of
whiskey among the Indians in the
Leech Lake region. Ke.wabe- bin-acc
--foithatis bis name, is a great man
among his own people. In the days
gone by, before. his sixty and seven
years had put silver gleam in the
shadow of his raven hair, he wandered
as far west as the Rockies, where be
killed the grizzlies that surrendered to
him the seventy-eight claws that he
weares in necklace. He also fought
the Sioux braves and scalped eleven
white men before he settled down on
the land that Uncle Sam assigned him.
The old fellow doesn't speak q word of
English, and he gazed about him with
that stolld indifference that is the
characteristic Of his race. When spoken
to he delivered himself of what might be
called asmile. and in few gutterals ex-
pla,ned'as best he could that he did not
understand his interlocutors. Ga his
head he wore hat decorated with the
wing Of pheasant and tail feathers of
an eagle, all dyed blood red. Eleven
black feathers, with tips slightly colored
betokened the scalps take by this great
chief. About his neck he wears the
bear-claw necklace, and be carried al
tobacco bag made Of buckskin, ex-
quisite]y embroidered and beaded |
The long thick-stemmed pipe formed a
part Of the outfit. A woman's shawl, u |
pait of cheap pantaloons and emhroider-
ed moccasns completed the old mans |
outfit. HIS cheeks and eyelids were
dyed deep vermilion, and the long,
bony fingers were decorated with brass |
rim rs.
ke-wab-e-bin ace is what is popu!Hrly |
Known as "hard citizen'' Nnt'u |
generation since he was a mighty chief |
Of q mighty nation, and had rcveled in
the blood and heat of savage warfare for
for FORTY years before the government
laid a restraining hand upon him.
Confined on the reservation, the Ill ten
per Of the old savage has time and
again found vent in assaults upon bis
own people, and murder or two and
innumerable assaults have been traced !
to the old man. Agent ShecIta!l---1ot
whom the old man has desperate
hatred-has been searching for him for
al least six months. But Ke.wab-e- bin.
ace has wholesome respect for Marshal
Campbell, and before he was arrested he
told Qua Beaulieu--a United States
officer, and better known and more
feared by indians than any other man in
the state-that he would not to seek to
1Djure any government officer that
arrested him, but he wauld kin Sheeban
0r anv Of his rnpu on cipht The old
man bears innumorable scars Of conflict
with savage man and beast proudly
wears his scalp lock. His scalpng
knife. taken from BIN, is a piece of
ground steel, with two rough bits Of
wood bound about with copper wire for
a handle. He has been lodged in jail to
await trial next September.
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